Materials for tonight

• Have R and RStudio installed on your computer

• Install data.table, tidyverse, tictoc, and R.utils

• Download the dataset here

R-Ladies St. Louis

Started in September 2017 by Jenine Harris and Chelsea West

Co-organizers for 2023-24 include:

• Jenine Harris (Washington University)
  
• Mary Painter (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  
• Shelly Cooper (Washington University)
  
• Crystal Lewis (Freelance Data Management Consultant)
  
• Laura Rose (Hinge Health)

2024 Spring Schedule

• Today: Introduction to data.table with Susanna Supalla
• TBD: Quarto presentation with Jadey Ryan

Announcements

• We will be recording this talk

  • Feel free to turn off your cameras if you do not want to be recorded

• Use the chat to ask questions (to everyone or directly to the host)

Want to learn more or get involved?

Visit rladies.org to learn about the mission and global work of R-Ladies

About tonight’s speaker

Susanna Supalla, PhD, first learned R and started loving data.table as a graduate student in Political Science at the University of Rochester. Since then she has gained over a decade of experience working as a data scientist in political and health tech. Over her career she has built and operationalized dozens of machine learning models predicting individual-level voting and healthcare utilization behavior, designed and analyzed large-scale field experiments testing novel outreach methods, supported development of data visualization and analysis products, and built R packages and data pipelines.

About tonight’s speaker, cont.

Today Susanna is a Staff Data Scientist at Hinge Health, a digital clinic for joint and muscle care, where she builds predictive models and designs experiments to better reach people most in need of physical therapy. Susanna also authored a chapter in the newly released book, Non-Academic Careers for Quantitative Social Scientists.